Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

152. “Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

153. “If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

154. “It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

155. “Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

156. “Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

157. “Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

158. “When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

159. “In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking – birth and death – everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

160. “You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

161. “The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

162. “I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

163. “It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

164. “Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

165. “Your burden is of false self-identifications – abandon them all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

166. “The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

167. “If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

168. “There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

169. “Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

170. “Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

171. “The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

172. “Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

173. “See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

174. “When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no ‘I am’. The ‘I am’ merges in the Absolute.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

175. “The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

176. “Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

177. “Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all – being as well as not-being.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

178. “You know that you are. Don’t burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

179. “Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

180. “The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

181. “Self-remembrance, awareness of ‘I am’ ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

182. “Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of ‘I’”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

183. “What refuses to die cannot be reborn.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

184. “The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

185. “Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

186. “When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

187. “When there is total surrender, complete relinquishment of all concern with one’s past, present and future, with one’s physical and spiritual security and standing, a new life dawns, full of love and beauty; then the guru is not important, for the disciple has broken the shell of self-defense. Complete self-surrender is liberation by itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

188. “If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

189. “To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

190. “Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

191. “You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

192. “To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor non-living. It is a state of pure awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time. Once the illusion that the body-mind is oneself is abandoned, death loses its terror; it becomes a part of living.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

193. “The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it – he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling ‘I am’ is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

194. “The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

195. “The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

196. “Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

197. “All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one...”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

198. “You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

199. “When the shadow is seen to be only a shadow, you stop following it. You turn around and discover the sun which was there all the time – behind your back!”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

200. “You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj